The recent judicial orders in the contempt case initiated by the Supreme Court over a chapter in a textbook published by NCERT discussing judicial corruption are going to set back the conversation on judicial reforms by a decade, if not more. To discuss the contents of the chapter is an invitation for the worthies at the bar to go complaining to the Supreme Court once again. Hence, it is not possible to explain the flaws in the court’s claim that the three experts “misrepresented the facts” to tarnish the judiciary’s image.
